C-II drugs are prescription drugs which have a high risk
of abuse and/or addiction; two examples would be morphine and
oxycodone.
The US Drug Enforcement Agency has placed
federal limits on various aspects of C-II prescriptions. A prescription for a C-II
listed substance must be in written form and hand signed except in certain specific
circumstances. These prescriptions cannot be refilled. As far as time limits, the DEA's
website (link below) says:
"There is no federal time limit within which a
schedule II prescription must be filled after being signed by the practitioner.
However, the pharmacist must determine that the prescription is still needed by the
patient."
States may issue
more stringent regulations than the federal government on such issues, and in this case
many of them have done so. For example, Nevada limits the filling of a C-II prescription
to 14 days from the date of issue, but in California C-II prescriptions are good for six
months after the date of issue. Military pharmacies require the prescription to be less
than 30 days old, as does the state of Massachusetts. In Illinois the time limit is 90
days.
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